TechFlash: Take a look at 21 $1B babies; 3 biggest aqui-hirers ranked

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January 10, 2014

Take a look at 21 VC-backed companies valued at $1B or more There are between 20 and 30 venture-backed companies that are now valued at more than $1 billion. Here's the 3 biggest players in the aqui-hire game Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo have been the biggest buyers in the talent search through M&A known as aqui-hires. Zynga's former HR chief on her new gig at Reputation.com Colleen McCreery, Zynga's former head of human resources, said this week she'd taken a job as Chief People Officer at Reputation.com, the Redwood City identity theft protection site. Santa Cruz startups find Silicon Valley investors with new angel group Chatting over breakfast at a hole-in-the-wall restaurant in Santa Cruz, Bud Colligan seems more like a veteran city planner than an entrepreneur whose startup previously sold to Adobe Systems Inc. for... More founder & funder news LivingSocial CEO Tim O'Shaughnessy to step down With $1B investment, does Watson the super-computer deserve a paycheck? Would you like Jelly more if Biz Stone answered every question? Andreessen's cheeky Microsoft pick is a bit wolfish Radius raises $13M for business marketing - San Francisco

Cromwell Schubarth Senior Technology Reporter cschubarth@bizjournals.com 408.299.1823 Connect with us SVBJ Tech News Will robots spawn lawsuits? Legal expert says yes The politics of Netflix CEO Reed Hastings | Executive of the Year 2013 Big layoffs at Dell on the way, report says PC shipments dip 10% in 2013 as more move to mobile Those Apple-loving geeks? They've gone all corporate Facebook to kill controversial sponsored stories this spring

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